The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services confirmed that Nanette Chun-Ming Ward has resigned from her position with the city as human rights
investigator, human rights educator and study circles program
coordinator.

The driving idea behind "Women with Wings" is to empower women by incorporating their experiences into creative expression.

About 115 women, for the most part strangers, met for "Women with Wings," a nonprofit art project. For seven sessions between Oct. 10 and 13, participants shared their life experiences with one another.

"Women tend to weave their lives together, and so part of what we are
doing here is weaving our stories together," said artist Lorri Acott-Fowler, co-organizer of the project. "Then, when we use
clay, we will leave those marks together that tell our stories."